Great pic, just shows you that tradition is perhaps best maintained on formal occasions but the kilt is essentially made for dressing casually and your pic proves it, excellent

Hi Jock,
Last year I was talking to the ranger on the island of Inchcailloch on Loch Lomond, she told me that Lyme disease is not just limited to the Highlands and islands like Skye in Scotland but...

Hi Jock,
I watched the STV news the other night and they featured an article about the dreaded Lyme's disease. I was unaware about this until a relative was bitten on a holiday in Skye, a couple of...

Hi Alan, " fancy dressers" , please explain as i am no fancy dresser except on a formal occasions.
My kilted background has risen from the ranks of the Tartan army, problem the best advert for kilt...

No , wrong the kilt is alive and well in Scotland, plenty of kilties about especially at weekends for weddings and parties . It is just that the kilt is not conducive to everyday wear and it would be...

Yes and there is a statue of Phil, near Grafton Street, Dublin

Great book called 'The Canoe Boys' who sailed from Bowling on the Clyde to Skye in 1934 and reported their daily adventures back to a Scottish newspaper, they wore kilts and vests during their epic...

With apologies to our English friends, I thoroughly enjoyed the bi-annual event of the demise of their soccer team and in the usual method of execution.
Yes before you say I know that at least they...

Great pics, you certainly seem to have had a good time there.
I've got tickets for the Lomond Folk Festival in Balloch at the end of July, my tickets are for Skerryvore on the Saturday night, they...

So thats what it is called

There is a new town near Condorrat on the Glasgow to Stirling road - now what is it called?

What an edifying and enlightened forum this is - I now know the meaning of rambunctious!

To show that I am dull and boring, I have friends who stay in Much Wenlock in Shropshire, I think there is a Little Wenlock?

O Generation of Freedom, Remember us the Generation of Heroes

The residents of Dull in Perthshire are celebrating after the US town of Boring voted to forge links with them.
The Boring Community Planning Organisation in Oregon have voted to make the two...

We here in the States have a knack for hiring parade-focused bands rather than competitive-focused bands (two very different animals on this side of the pond) for far too many public performances, so...

sorry, should also add great pic of you and the boys

Great pic of your wife and wee doggy

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Thankfully I did not stay up to watch the USA versus Scotland International Friendly Soccer match held in Jacksonville, Florida at the weekend. Scotland were humiliated by 5 goals to one, what a...

Sorry Jock, would love to be there but cant manage, the best of luck and have a good day

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I was looking for any x markers at Dumbarton but did not see anyone I recognised, may see you at the Worlds in August

the final pic is of me at Crianlarich Railway Station with the snow capped Ben More in the background

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The weather remained dry for the duration of the day with the Earl Montgomery Pipe Band retaining the championship.
Here are some pics of the day and the following day touring Argyllshire
First pic...